Quotes 441 till 460 of 718.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.
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Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.
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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
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So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
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Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.
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